Gold Cup 2019:

[N o o d l e s]

This Pulisic-McKennie partnership is the only reason I have any hope over the next 8-10 years

 

[Pavel Buchnevich]

Pulisic has been excellent this tournament

He's been excellent for half a season at this point, but a lot of people still think he's in a slump.

 

[Tryamw]

The US play has been bad lots of heavy touches and passes to the other team.. Bradley is looking done... and We need a defensive midfielder.. (No that's not Bradley)

 

[Uncle Rotter]

And since most soccer countries started to invest in women soccer, Canada can't compete anymore with the best teams. And they never really achieved much success anyway.

Canada Soccer is an epic failure all around.

Some people look at the glass and say it's half full. Some people say it's half empty. And some some people say it's empty, and there has never ever been water in the glass.

 

[Uncle Rotter]

Not denying that US women are more successful than the men but the men have largely been WC qualifiers since the "Shot heard round the world" in the late 80's which broke a decades long streak of not making the WC (since the 60's IIRC). Canada again has only qualified once in federation history...

US-Canada is the same situation as Germany-Austria, England-Scotland (10x the population of their neighbors. With the difference that Germany and England don't have a climate advantage.)

 

[kingsboy11]

God the U.S. has hardly touched the ball this half and when they do its needlessly given away. Insanely frustrating to watch.

 

[The Zetterberg Era]

This is as bad as the friendlies they played leading into the tournament.

 

[Tryamw]

Apparently No shots on goal in over 50m...
And Zhardes over the bar ... Best chance this half. (for the US)

Curacao is just toying with us... Good save by the US keeper.

 

[koyvoo]

I can’t believe that Curacao is still in this. Not that they don’t deserve to be, but I would’ve expected this one to be wrapped up by now.

 

[N o o d l e s]

The US play has been bad lots of heavy touches and passes to the other team.. Bradley is looking done... and We need a defensive midfielder.. (No that's not Bradley)

Bradley has been done since 2014

 

[Cody Webster]

Great save!

 

[Tryamw]

The US should be thankful to be up...
Edit: US win but look about as steady as a jenga tower one stick before collapse.

 

[kingsboy11]

Jesus Christ wtf was that performance? Credit to Curacao, but my god that was just pathetic. Mexico would wipe the floor with us if they played us today.

 

[Tryamw]

Jesus Christ wtf was that performance? Credit to Curacao, but my god that was just pathetic. Mexico would wipe the floor with us if they played us today.

I'm not sure the USWNT wouldn't have.. And I know their should be several tiers of difference.

 

[JunglePete]

What?

Our chances weren't slim at all. We lost by one goal because of our own total collapse not they good play and were very close to tying it with the Hutchinson offside.

i know you want to continue this BS narrative that we had very little chance against Haiti but that game proves your theory totally wrong.

They were maybe not that slim but I didn't expect us to win. No teams are really that favorite at this point in a tournament and every game finishes by one goal now. In reality they finished 1st in their group while beating Costa Rica while we didn't face anyone serious in the past year (outside of Mexico) . All about momentum.


I don't even wanna talk about the game as it's the most frustrating game but the first goal they were asleep, 2nd goal looked offside to me. It's like Haiti woke up at the 45th. Weird. Their goals came from a Borjan brain fart, dumbest foul in the whole tournament and 3rd goal we made them look like Barca. When Atiba was offside with a foul that was the only time we did something in the 2nd half. We could only pass the ball through our backline, although the 1st 20 minutes were very well done.

Let's take the L, move on, learn from it, stop acting like Mexico because we couldn't beat their E squad and stop underestimating other Concacaf nations because we aren't that good. Pathetic performance . Herdman was severely outcoached. Could've been Jamaica, Curacao, Honduras it would have been the same outcome.


On to the Nations league.

 

[JunglePete]

Based on what I'm reading looks like the US almost pulled a Canada.

Could Jamaica beat the US?

 

[Pouchkine]

Some people look at the glass and say it's half full. Some people say it's half empty. And some some people say it's empty, and there has never ever been water in the glass.

Ok what are the positives?

 

[Uncle Rotter]

Ok what are the positives?

You said:

And since most soccer countries started to invest in women soccer, Canada can't compete anymore with the best teams. And they never really achieved much success anyway.

So medals in the last two Olympics (beating Australia, Germany, France, Brazil in the last one) don't constitute any sort of "success".

 

[Scouter]

Jesus Christ wtf was that performance? Credit to Curacao, but my god that was just pathetic. Mexico would wipe the floor with us if they played us today.

Did you see Mexico vs. a weak looking Costa Rica having just lost to Haiti, they weren't that good either.

 

[robertmac43]

Could Jamaica beat the US?

It would be tough but they could do it. They have been relatively organized on the back-line and they have a game changer in Leon Bailey who increases their chances of nicking one or even two.

 

[robertmac43]

Let's take the L, move on, learn from it, stop acting like Mexico because we couldn't beat their E squad and stop underestimating other Concacaf nations because we aren't that good. Pathetic performance . Herdman was severely outcoached. Could've been Jamaica, Curacao, Honduras it would have been the same outcome.

Why is this the narrative, in what ways was Herdman "severely outcoahced" ?

 

[Pouchkine]

Once again take it the other way, what did he do good in that game? Did he made good adjustments, used good tactics, made good subs?

 

[John Price]

Jamaica could most def beat the US. Didn't they beat them in that friendly at Audi Field?

 

[Pouchkine]

USA are so bad they could lose to just about anyone at the moment even at home.

 

[bleedblue1223]

USA could lose to anyone and also win the tournament, that's the frustrating part.